There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
